A Study Of Seeking The Numinous Through Personal Writings And Observations On How The Works Of James Turrell and Jenny Holzer Break Through To Unvisited Realms That Make You Feel
It doesn`t have to be
the blue iris, it could be weeds, in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just
pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don`t try
to make them elaborate, this isn`t
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak
The repetition the routine of establishing space for crickets to creep in. Silence. The moment you get to consider your relationship to yourself, your bed post, the candle you lit, and the night that’s drooped in at the outside of your bedroom window. And it doesn`t need to be to God your ritual of noticing, it can be to the things you`re noticing. Through this you lead yourself to the experience of presence. How lucky is that, and how easy it seems. I`ve noticed that when I notice, recognized that in recognizing the things that I am being met with in and at any given moment, I somehow begin to breath more slowly, and I am somehow connected, synced in, and at the same time, free. I think this is the kind of state Mary Oliver seeks to reflect on in most of her work. In “Praying” she touches on yes the value of a moment taken to make room for another link, intuition, and the element which she suggests will allow for the experience of connection is, the ritual of prayer, being in ode to something outside the self. Prayer as ritual. The motions performed to prepare for prayer, the laying out of the carpet, the kneel, the weave of your own two hands and the folding of your fingers, the arms lifted, they exist in order to create a physical state, a physical state, that operates as a transformative tool, that then has the capacity to shift your perspective and relationship to reality.